To the government the whole reason of the law was to guarantee land owners profits of which they had became accustomed to during the war. However opponents of the regime both inside and outside of the regime only saw the law as a class piece of legislation in which the law saved landowners from three things: cheaper foreign grain, stabilised prices and making corn more expensive for the consumer. This concept and idea was not new, a similar law 1804 had been introduced to guarantee 80 shillings a quarter. In spite of this the government had problems to face including riots, petitions and demonstrations. The main protest for this law, was the Luddism riots and machine breaking.
Also, he gave elected officials the right to choose their own followers to public office. Jacksonian Democrats also sought “relaxed property qualifications to vote”. Jacksonian Democrats were all about representing the common man, and, since it represented the powerful and wealthy eastern people trumping over poor farmers, they shut down the “Second Bank of The United States”. Populists were also about representing the common man. In fact, they wanted “free and unlimited coinage of silver” to help debtor farmers in the west that had borrowed gold from wealthy western Americans.
In 1892 members of the Farmers' Alliance formed the People's Party, better known as the Populist Party. Though the party was made up of farmers for the most part, many laborers also joined. In addition to the free, unlimited coinage of silver, Populists demanded a federal income tax based on income level, which is also called a graduated income tax. This would mean that the wealthy paid more than farmers or laborers. They also wanted government ownership of the railroads to fight the rail monopolies that charged them high shipping rates.
There were quotas set for crop production to stabilize crop prices, as a result of the legislation of the Agricultural Act. The Ohio farmer Roscoe Filburn grew an amount of wheat that exceeded the amount that was allowed based on the quotas from the Agricultural Act. He stated that he was growing the additional wheat for the animals on his farm and not to sell on the open market. Filburn was mandated to burn his excess crops and pay a fine as the law stated. It was also stated that he affected Interstate Commerce which was regulated federally.
Since the ranchers trusted their foremen, most ranchers did not stay on their ranch except during shipping season. Foremen would find new born cattle and brand them with their own brand on their rancher’s property. The Northern Wyoming Farmers and Stock Growers Association (NWFSGA) was created out of anger from the rustlers, and tried to kill the seventy rustlers that they identified in Johnson County. The small compilation of rustling ended up in bloodshed. On April 9, 1892, NWFSGA members surrounded a cabin at the KC Ranch looking for Nate Champion.
Hoover is helping farmers in their time of trouble. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation is Hoover’s agency that gave loans to banks and businesses to keep them a flow. Hoover tried to help America by even creating an agency to keep America running. President Roosevelt, however was liberal because he did try to help Americans in need. The New Deal was a plan that gave America a way to help the people.
Basil, by attacking the over powerful, gained power. This was accomplished because when Basil attacked the people in power he gain land and money, which he later gave to the small farmers of his empire. These farmers then proceeded to participate in his service by paying higher taxes, contributing to the wealth of his country, and by giving good word of him to other farmers and civilians around the Byzantine empire. When Basil gained the heavy amount of money the farmers had to offer, he then left a high treasury for the emperors to come. Basil the seconded was a very bold, stingy, and conservative emperor whose unbelievable qualities were highlighted by the powerful government he lead.
Together, Bryan and the farmer’s alliance brought in some good ideas. The farmers were hardly getting any money for all they did so, the Alliance came up with an idea to help with inflation, bring in more crop shares, lower their debt, and income taxes which would help hold down the American economy. The book mentions silver to gold ratio 16:1, for an unlimited amount of coinage and creates more surplus. The silver was their uprising and their downfall. The Alliance hadn’t had much political power, except for the Sherman Silver Act which replaced the gold as the primary coinage in the United States.
They tried using the education for the poor, so that they could stretch their money. But instead the congress demanded the FSA to help the tennant farmers be able to purchase their farms. Loans became avaiable to them up to $191 million in loans were made and eventually repaid. As time went on their were larger loan programs made to over 950,000 tennant farmers in the amount of $778 million. Reasons for this was to make the farmers more efficient, some used their loans for new machinery, vehicles, or to even repay old debts they had.
The system that was created in the United States was evolved from a system called feudalism that was created in England during the Middle Ages (insert textbook citation (Martin, 2007). Feudalism was a form a legalized slavery but was thought of as a way to manage the poor. The way feudalism worked was that the rich landowners would supply housing and food for the poor people who farmed the land. This system was harsh and the landowners had complete control over the workers, they could sell them at any point. The next form of human service was provided by faith-based charities and churches.